A strange thing about black holes: they shine.
The current issue of Science Express, the online advance
publication of the journal, features a paper by the Event Horizon telescope
team – a collaboration which includes Perimeter Associate Faculty member Avery
Broderick – that may shed light on the origin of the bright jets given off by some
black holes. In a world first, the team has been able to look at a distant
black hole and resolve the area where its jets are launched from. This is the
first empirical evidence to support the connection between black hole spin and
black hole jets that has been long suspected on theoretical grounds.